Budget 2018-19

  While China has long supplied Pakistan’s armed forces, the relationship has deepened in recent years. As Pakistan is facing more restrictions to get weapons from the US, China has filled the vacuum by proving weapons to boost Islamabad’s conventional and nuclear arsenal. While China has long supplied Pakistan’s armed forces, the relationship has deepened in recent years, with Pakistan making major purchases of top-of-the-line Chinese export equipment, according to the National Interest. “China has sold or licensed to Pakistan the following five weapons program a)  Nuclear Weapons  Program, b) JF-17 Fighter A-100 c) Multiple Rocket Launcher, d) VT-1A and e) HQ-16,” writes Charlie Gao an analyst in the National Interest. One of the major aspects that Pakistan has focused on military acquisition from China has been on acquiring the necessary Air Defence for its Ground Forces. Pakistan military has relied primarily on its Air Force for providing the defence of its formation...

  China’s Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang has been barred from UK Parliament over sanctions imposed on some British MPs for their remarks on alleged human rights violations against Uyghur minorities China’s Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang has been barred from the  UK Parliamen t over sanctions imposed on some British MPs for their remarks on alleged human rights violations against Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang, triggering an angry condemnation from the Chinese Embassy here. Zeguang was due to attend a meeting organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on China recently, but a letter from the sanctioned members of Parliament and House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle resulted in its cancellation. The letter flagging the meeting was signed by Conservative Party MPs Ian Duncan Smith, Tim Loughton, Nusrat Ghani and the Chair of the Commons  Foreign Affairs  Committee Tom Tugendhat among those on the sanctions list. In their letter, the MPs argued: The Ch...